Cultural Literature
CHAOTIC JUSTICE: RETHINKING AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
What is African American about African American literature? Why identify it as a distinct tradition? John Ernest contends that too often scholars have relied on naive concepts of race, superficial conceptions of African American history, and the marginalization of important...
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BARACK LIKE ME: THE CHOCOLATE-COVERED TRUTH
FROM GROWING UP IN DETROIT, where he marched as a ten-year-old with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to attending the inauguration of President Barack Obama, where he narrowly avoided the Purple Tunnel of Doom but still saw nothing, David Alan...
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AFRICAN AMERICAN FOOD CULTURE
Like other Americans, African Americans partake of the general food offerings available in mainstream supermarket chains across the country. Food culture, however, may depend on where they live and their degree of connection to traditions passed down through generations since...
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ANOTHER DAY AT THE FRONT: DISPATCHES FROM THE RACE WAR
African Americans have been at war with certain elements of the white population from the very beginning. Being black in this hemisphere is a battle, and each day is one spent at the front. In this new collection of essays,...
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12 MILLION BLACK VOICES
12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Security Farm Administration files compiled during the Great Depression. The photographs include works by such giants as Walker Evans, Dorothea...
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AGAINST RACISM
"This masterfully edited collection of some of the essays, papers, and addresses of the leading social and political thinker of the African diaspora during the first half of the twentieth century is worth every exhilarating moment that one spends perusing...
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CLAIMING EARTH: RACE, RAPE, RITUAL, RICHNESS IN AMERICA AND THE SEARCH FOR ENLIGHTENED EMPOWERMENT (COMING SOON)
An important handbook, this guide encourages nurturing people, both young and old, into Black consciousness and activism. Product details Publisher : Third World Press; First Edition (July 1, 1995) Language : English Paperback : 250 pages ISBN-10 : 0883780909 ISBN-13 : 978-0883780909 Item Weight : 13.4...
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LIGHT FROM ANCIENT AFRICA
Light from Ancient Africa is a critical contribution to what might be called the "Re-Africanization of Psychology Project." It was within this project that we came to realize that the notion of human psychology was and remains an African invention...In...
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BLACK PROPHETIC FIRE
In an accessible, conversational format, Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida B....
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NEWARK: A HISTORY OF RACE, RIGHTS, AND RIOTS IN AMERICA
Newark’s volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant and contentious political culture punctuated by traditional civic pride and an understudied tradition of protest in the...
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A MOUTH IS ALWAYS MUZZLED: SIX DISSIDENTS, FIVE CONTINENTS, AND THE ART OF RESISTANCE
As people consider how to respond to a resurgence of racist, xenophobic populism, A Mouth Is Always Muzzled tells an extraordinary story of the ways art brings hope in perilous times. Weaving disparate topics from sugar and British colonialism to attacks on...
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AFRICAN AMERICANS OF DURHAM & ORANGE COUNTIES: AN ORAL HISTORY (AMERICAN HERITAGE)
Durham and Orange Counties have vibrant and active African American communities. Throughout the region's unjust past, generations have shown extraordinary strength and resolve. Floyd McKissick became the first African American student at the University of North Carolina School of Law...
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AND STILL I RISE: BLACK AMERICA SINCE MLK
The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS series, And Still I Rise—a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos. Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in...
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HIP-HOP ACTIVISM IN THE OBAMA ERA (COMING SOON)
Kitwana, author of the best-selling The Hip-Hop Generation, sits down with leadership of the five major national hip-hop organizations, a larger part of the force that is driving the innovative marriage between hip-hop and civic engagement—The League of Young Voters,...
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CUTTING ALONG THE COLOR LINE: BLACK BARBERS AND BARBER SHOPS IN AMERICA
Today, black-owned barber shops play a central role in African American public life. The intimacy of commercial grooming encourages both confidentiality and camaraderie, which make the barber shop an important gathering place for African American men to talk freely. But...
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KNOW WHAT I MEAN?: REFLECTIONS ON HIP HOP
Whether along race, class or generational lines, hip-hop music has been a source of controversy since the beats got too big and the voices too loud for the block parties that spawned them. America has condemned and commended this music...
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BLACK POWER AND THE GARVEY MOVEMENT
This provocative study examines the far-reaching influence of Marcus Garvey anthe Universal Negro Improvement Association. Theodore G. Vincent details UNIA’s origins and clarifies the many myths and controversies surrounding the organization and its founder. Initially written to explore the...
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ANOTHER DAY IN THE DEATH OF AMERICA: A CHRONICLE OF TEN SHORT LIVES
On an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during one such day. It could have been...
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ANOTHER DAY IN THE DEATH OF AMERICA: A CHRONICLE OF TEN SHORT LIVES
On an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during one such day. It could have been...
$16.99
FROM HEAD SHOPS TO WHOLE FOODS: THE RISE AND FALL OF ACTIVIST ENTREPRENEURS
In the 1960s and ’70s, a diverse range of storefronts―including head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and organic grocers―brought the work of the New Left, Black Power, feminism, environmentalism, and other movements into the marketplace. Through shared ownership, limited...
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